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Completion requirements
Keyboard shortcuts
The following keyboard shortcuts will work in the Atto text editor in most browsers. Note that for many of these commands to work you need to either click in the text editor or select content in the text editor.
| Windows Command | Mac Command | Function |
|---|---|---|
| Ctrl + c | ⌘ + c | Copy |
| Ctrl + v | ⌘ + v | Paste |
| Ctrl + Shift + v | ⌘ + Shift + v | Paste without formatting (very useful) |
| Ctrl + x | ⌘ + x | Cut |
| Ctrl + z | ⌘ + z | Undo (careful - can undo a lot of text and doesn't always work) |
| Ctrl + y | ⌘ + y | Redo |
| Ctrl + a | ⌘ + a | Select all |
| Double-click | Double-click | Select word |
| Triple-click | Triple-click | Select line |
| Ctrl + f | ⌘ + f | Find on page |
| F3 | F3 | Find next |
| Shift + F3 | Shift + F3 | Find previous |
| Ctrl + b | ⌘ + b | Bold |
| Ctrl + i | ⌘ + i | Italics |
| Ctrl + u | ⌘ + u | Underline |
| Ctrl + k | ⌘ + k | Insert/edit link |
| Ctrl + Right arrow | ⌘ + Right arrow | Move to the end of the next word |
| Ctrl + Left arrow | ⌘ + Left arrow | Move to the end of the previous word |
| Ctrl + Shift + Right arrow | ⌘ + Shift + Right arrow | Select the next word or letter |
| Ctrl + Shift + Left arrow | ⌘ + Shift + Left arrow | Select the previous word or letter |
| Ctrl + Shift + Home | ⌘ + Shift + Home | Select from the cursor to the beginning of the page |
| Ctrl + Shift + End | ⌘ + Shift + End | Select from the cursor to the end of the page |
| Ctrl + Home | ⌘ + Home | Move to the beginning of the page |
| Ctrl + End | ⌘ + End | Move to the end of the page |
| Ctrl + Backspace | ⌘ + Backspace | Delete word or letter to the left |
| Ctrl + Delete | ⌘ + Delete | Delete word or letter to the right |
| Ctrl and + | ⌘ and + | Zoom in (not specific to the editor, but very useful) |
| Ctrl and - | ⌘ and - | Zoom out (not specific to the editor, but very useful) |
| Ctrl and 0 | ⌘ and 0 | Reset zoom (not specific to the editor, but very useful) |
Source: Jason 1keddie, Royal Roads University (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike)
Last modified: Thursday, 28 October 2021, 10:17 AM